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In Western Christianity, Lectio Divina ( Latin for "Divine Reading") is a traditional monastic practice of scriptural reading, meditation and prayer intended to promote communion with God and to increase the knowledge of God's word. [ 1] In the view of one commentator, it does not treat Scripture as texts to be studied, but as the living word. [ 2]
Codex I (also known as The Jung Codex ): The Prayer of the Apostle Paul. The Apocryphon of James (also known as the Secret Book of James) The Gospel of Truth. The Treatise on the Resurrection. The Tripartite Tractate. Codex II : The Apocryphon of John. The Gospel of Thomas a sayings gospel.
List of biblical names. Names play a variety of roles in the Bible. They sometimes relate to the nominee's role in a biblical narrative, as in the case of Nabal, a foolish man whose name means "fool". [ 1] Names in the Bible can represent human hopes, divine revelations, or are used to illustrate prophecies. [ 2] [clarification needed]
Noah and the "baptismal flood" of the Old Testament (top panel) is "typologically linked" with (it prefigures) the baptism of Jesus in the New Testament (bottom panel). The four senses of Scripture is a four-level method of interpreting the Bible . In Christianity, the four senses are literal, allegorical, tropological and anagogical .
Allegorical interpretation of the Bible is an interpretive method ( exegesis) that assumes that the Bible has various levels of meaning and tends to focus on the spiritual sense, which includes the allegorical sense, the moral (or tropological) sense, and the anagogical sense, as opposed to the literal sense. It is sometimes referred to as the ...
The Sacred Scriptures Bethel Edition ( SSBE) is a Sacred Name Bible which uses the names Yahweh and Yahshua in both the Old and New Testaments ( Chamberlin p. 51-3). It was produced by Jacob O. Meyer, based on the American Standard Version of 1901 and it contains over 977 pages. The Assemblies of Yahweh printed 5,500 copies of the first edition ...
Biblical literalism or biblicism is a term used differently by different authors concerning biblical interpretation. It can equate to the dictionary definition of literalism: "adherence to the exact letter or the literal sense", [ 1] where literal means "in accordance with, involving, or being the primary or strict meaning of the word or words ...
Biblical inspiration is the doctrine in Christian theology that the human writers and canonizers of the Bible were led by God with the result that their writings may be designated in some sense the word of God. [ 1] This belief is traditionally associated with concepts of the biblical infallibility and the internal consistency of the Bible.